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Fat Toad Farm is a small, family-run goat dairy in Brookfield Vermont. The family—Steve Reid, Judith Irving, Calley Hastings, and Josey Hastings—all fill various roles on the farm and in the production room. “Our farm started as a small, raise your own food effort initiated by Calley and Josey.” Judith says “But quickly our herd grew from 2 to 12 to 25 and we were producing much more milk than we could drink! In Spring of 2007, Fat Toad Farm became a certified goat dairy.”
It’s Fat Toads’ somewhat unusual goat milk caramel that caught our eye. Josey has lived in Mexico on and off for the past decade, and there she discovered cajeta, a popular caramel sauce made from goat milk. She insisted the family try their hands at making it, and five years and four flavors later, customers can’t get enough of this delectable treat.
Like dulce de leche (a traditional caramel sauce made with cow’s milk), all of the Fat Toad caramel sauces start with milk and sugar. Here, of course, the milk is from goats, and the sugar is organic. Choose the original flavor (simply milk and sugar), or go for coffee bean, vanilla bean, or cinnamon for an extra flavor kick. The creamy, sweet sauce tastes familiar at first, but the finish is lent a buttery complexity unlike anything we’ve ever had. The wooden boxed sets are perfect for gift-giving, but we wouldn’t blame you one bit if you wanted to keep the deliciousness all for yourself.
— Mir